Pethiyagoda Named New Sri Lanka Tea Board Chair

The Minister of Plantation Industries Navin Dissanayake has appointed Rohan Pethiyagoda to chair the Sri Lanka Tea Board. Pethiyagoda is a well-known Sri Lankan businessman and government officer in the Ministry of Tourism and Sports.

An author, he is recognized for his work in the environment and biodiversity fields and has initiated a project to convert abandoned tea gardens into natural forest cover. He is a research associate of the Australian Museum and is also an editor of the Asian Freshwater Fish section in the journal Zootaxa. Pethiyagoda has written several books in addition to some 60 research papers in scientific literature.

He completed his secondary education at St Thomas’s College, Mount Lavinia and B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, at King’s College, University of London in 1977. He also completed his M.Phil. In Biomedical Engineering, University of Sussex in 1980.

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Suggestion to Enhance Sri Lankan Tea

Congratulations Mr. Chairman,Please consider forming Tea Village Concepts In Sri Lanka too. Also if we can introduce more convenient tea Plucking as in Vietnam, perhaps the work force will have all communities,treating it a job they love,not merely as a way of living. Thank You.

Miss Anna Tamara G.S. Pieriesmore than 2 years ago

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